Guillaume Daniel Delprat
Guillaume Daniel Delprat CBE (1 September 1856 – 15 March 1937) was a Dutch-Australian metallurgist, mining engineer, and businessman. He was a developer of the froth flotation process for separating minerals.[1]
Delprat was born in Delft, the Netherlands, son of Major General Felix Albert Theodore Delprat (1812–1888), later minister of war, and his wife Elisabeth Francina, née van Santen Kolff.
Delprat attended a high school in Amsterdam and later became an apprentice engineer on the Tay Bridge in Scotland. He attended science classes in Newport-on-Tay and learned calculus from his father by post. On returning to the Netherlands, he is said to have acted as assistant to Johannes Diderik van der Waals, physics professor at the University of Amsterdam. From 1879 to 1882, Delprat worked in Spain at the Tharsis Sulphur and Copper Mines.[1]
In 1898, chairman
Delprat also pushed construction of the BHP
In 1935 Delprat was the first recipient of the medal of the
Family
G. D. Delprat married Henrietta Maria Wilhelmina Sophia Jas (died 5 December 1937) in Holland on 4 September 1879. Their seven children included:
- Dr. Lica Delprat (–1963) married Dr. Milo Sprod (1882 – 31 December 1934) on 11 April 1916
- Francisca Adriana "Paquita" Delprat (1891–1974) married (later Sir) Douglas Mawson (1882–1958) on 31 March 1914
- Carmen Paquita Delprat (–) married Petrus Ephrem "Pierre" Teppema (1863–1935). She was a noted violinist; studied under Hermann Heinicke, Siegfried Eberhardt and Alexander Petschnikoff[4]
References
- ^ ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
- ^ Intercolonial: New South Wales The West Australian 21 April 1899 p. 5 accessed 7 June 2012
- ^ Serle, Percival (1949). "Delprat, Guillaume Daniel". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
- ^ "Out among the People". The Advertiser (Adelaide). South Australia. 28 December 1934. p. 9. Retrieved 8 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
